~ Images and Impressions

Eric Holder’s Sorry Record as Attorney General

In subsequent congressional hearings, Holder testified he hadn’t learned of Fast and Furious until a few weeks before. When documents surfaced showing that he had repeatedly been directly sent briefings on the case, a spokesman said that Holder had misunderstood the question.

Eventually, the Justice Department retracted the denials it had made to Congress. After documents and witnesses indicated that White House officials had discussed Fast and Furious, Congress issued subpoenas. Holder withheld them and, in a bipartisan vote, was held in contempt of Congress. On the eve of the vote, June 20, 2012, President Obama declared executive privilege to withhold key documents.

Let no one continue under the impression that this man has ever been anything but a political hack.

"Every measure which establishes legal charity on a permanent basis and gives to it an administrative form, creates thereby a class unproductive and idle, living at the expense of the class which is industrious and given to work. Human dignity is bound up with taking responsibility for conducting one's own affairs." ~ Alexis de Tocqueville

"As long as it is admitted that the law may be diverted from its true purpose — that it may violate property instead of protecting it — then everyone will want to participate in making the law, either to protect himself against plunder or to use it for plunder. Political questions will always be prejudicial, dominant, and all-absorbing. There will be fighting at the door of the Legislative Palace, and the struggle within will be no less furious. To know this, it is hardly necessary to examine what transpires in the French and English legislatures; merely to understand the issue is to know the answer." ~ Frederic Bastiat

"Howard Roark laughed." ~ Ayn Rand

“Be like the bird that, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing that she hath wings.” ~ Victor Hugo

"Now the days they are unwinding like an alarm clock, and the drift it is as steady as it is strong..." ~ Matthew Ryan